Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”
– Ted Leonsis
Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
– Christopher Robin to Pooh
Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”
– W.E.B. Du Bois
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
– Joseph Campbell
Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”
– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
I’ve come to confirm that one’s title, even that of president, says little about how well one’s life has been led. No matter how much you’ve done, or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, to learn, and to achieve.”
– Barack Obama
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”
– Seth Godin
There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”
– J. Robert Oppenheimer
The follow-your-gut mentality of the entrepreneur has the potential to take you anywhere you want to go or run you right out of business.”
– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”
– Cecil B. DeMille
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”
– Oprah Winfrey
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”
– Andrew Carnegie
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
– Joseph Addison
I was taught at a very young age that you can do whatever you want to, but you have to make it happen — not just talk about it.”
– Kathleen Jo Ryan
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”
– Andy Sernovitz
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.
– Avenida Margarita
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
